Sensation of Gravity

The Gallery of Modern Art (Genoa, Italy).

As one of the active followers of aerial painting, Luigi Colombo depicted distorted spatial relations, curved horizons and an inverted perspective from “great cosmic heights”. The artist went in his art much further than many of his avant-garde colleagues. He was not only interested in the view of the earth and the landscapes that opened up from the height of the plane; his eyes went much farther – into endless space, where earthly laws do not work, and familiar things take on a completely different meaning. This tendency to a more “cosmic” understanding is clearly expressed in the series of paintings “Gravity”, the most famous of which is this work.